handmaid
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 8
Definition of handmaid
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
“And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”
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noun
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(historical)A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
“And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”
- A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English handemayde, hand-maide, handmaide, handmayd, hand mayde, hand-mayde, haundmaid, hondemayde, hondmaide, hond-mayde. By surface analysis, compound of hand + maid, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".
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